Big Band Leader, Entertainer announcer. Kay Kyser was very successful during his years as a number one band leader in the country and equally productive during his long period of retirement at age 41.

A king of the swing era of big band music, Kay Kyser, will be recognized with a N.C. Highway Historical Marker, Oct. 5, at 4 p.m. in his hometown. Kyser was born in Rocky Mount and went on to become ...

Back in 1937, Band-Leader Kay Kyser was whiling away the slow Monday evenings at Chicago’s Blackhawk Restaurant by dishing out a line of folksy chatter to the customers. Out of such primitive ...

The life and times of the man who was the most prominent living native of Rocky Mount will be remembered from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday in the Warner Meeting Room at the Braswell Memorial Library. Kay ...

Harry Babbitt, the Kay Kyser orchestra lead vocalist who sang on such Kyser hits as “Three Little Fishies,” “On A Slow Boat to China” and “Who Wouldn’t Love You,” died in Aliso Viejo, Calif. April 9 ...

Harry Babbitt, the Kay Kyser orchestra lead vocalist who sang on such Kyser hits as “Three Little Fishies,” “On A Slow Boat to China” and “Who Wouldn’t Love You,” has died. He was 90. Babbitt, a ...

Q.I’m looking for recordings of any kind of two novelty songs. I think one or both were recorded by Kay Kyser’s orchestra. The titles, I believe, are Alexander the Swoose and Oh Monah. _ Don ...

Harry Babbitt, 90, Kay Kyser orchestra vocalist on such hits as “Three Little Fishies,” “On A Slow Boat to China” and “Who Wouldn’t Love You”; April 9, in Aliso Viejo, Calif., of age-related causes.

Georgia Carroll Kyser, a fashion model in the 1930s and ‘40s who became an actress and a singer with her husband Kay Kyser’s big band, died Friday in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was 91. The cause was not ...

Former Dallas resident Georgia Carroll Kyser, who was the model for The Spirit of the Centennial statue in front of the Women's Museum at Fair Park, died Friday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Kyser, the wife of ...